Worcester Regional Research Bureau

We're not even a quarter of the way through 2019, and yet it seems a whole class...

Tim McGourthy, executive director of the Worcester Regional Research Bureau, has been hired as deputy secretary in the state's housing and economic development office.

Tim McGourthy, executive director of the Worcester Regional Research Bureau, will leave the nonprofit organization by the end of March.

The WBJ and Worcester Regional Research Bureau embarked on a monthslong look at the impact of immigrant businesses in Worcester. The project found foreign-born residents make up 36 percent of the city's business owners.

Throughout history, our cities have absorbed a larger portion of immigrants into their new home, and today is no different.

For a century starting in the 1870s, immigrants moving into Worcester almost exclusively came from Europe and North America. That's no longer the case.

Immigrants in Worcester are more likely than native citizens to start their own business and have bachelor's degrees, giving them a disproportionate share of the economy.

WBJ this year partnered with our friends over at the Worcester Regional Research Bureau to learn more about the historic and modern impacts immigrants had in our city.

Much caution needs to be exercised in interpreting figures regarding supposed changes in local income.

The median income for a Worcester household fell by 5.6 percent last year to $41,561, according to Census data released this month.